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Vox's coverage of the Academy Awards: Oscar predictions, analysis, winners, losers, key moments, and more.

Everything you need to know about the 95th Academy Awards

5 winners and 4 losers from the 2023 Oscars

By Alex Abad-Santos, Aja Romano, and 2 more March 13

Everything you need to know about the 95th Academy Awards

Why Everything Everywhere All at Once won ... everything

By Alissa Wilkinson March 13

Why Top Gun’s sound design is Oscar-worthy

By Edward Vega March 10

Everything you need to know about the 95th Academy Awards

One year later, Chris Rock addresses the Will Smith Oscars slap

By Constance Grady March 7

Everything you need to know about the 95th Academy Awards

The surprising lesson from a century of Oscar scandals

By Alissa Wilkinson March 1

Everything you need to know about the 95th Academy Awards

What’s the future of Black horror?

By Alissa Wilkinson February 28

Everything you need to know about the 95th Academy Awards

This is the most populist Oscars in a long time

By Alissa Wilkinson February 25

Everything you need to know about the 95th Academy Awards

Why in the world do we hand out awards to adults?

By Emily Stewart February 23

Everything you need to know about the 95th Academy Awards

Why we loved Everything Everywhere All at Once — and why we hope it wins the Oscar

By Alissa Wilkinson, Aja Romano, and 2 more February 4

Everything you need to know about the 95th Academy Awards

What Andrea Riseborough’s controversial nomination reveals about the Oscars

By Alissa Wilkinson February 2

Everything you need to know about the 95th Academy Awards

How Avatar: The Way of Water can make $2 billion and still feel irrelevant

By Alex Abad-Santos January 30

Everything you need to know about the 95th Academy Awards

Avatar: The Way of Water reminds us that blockbusters don’t have to look absolutely terrible

By Alissa Wilkinson December 16, 2022

Everything you need to know about the 95th Academy Awards

The Whale screenwriter on writing about religious fundamentalism, bodies, and hope

By Alissa Wilkinson December 9, 2022

Everything you need to know about the 95th Academy Awards

The 25 best movies of 2022

By Alissa Wilkinson December 1, 2022

Everything you need to know about the 95th Academy Awards

Of course Glass Onion is a blast. But it cuts deeper than Knives Out, too.

By Alissa Wilkinson November 23, 2022

Everything you need to know about the 95th Academy Awards

Marvel has a whole lot riding on Black Panther: Wakanda Forever

By Alex Abad-Santos November 10, 2022

Everything you need to know about the 95th Academy Awards

Here are 29 new movies to get excited about

By Alissa Wilkinson October 10, 2022

Everything you need to know about the 95th Academy Awards

Tár demands — and deserves — your full attention

By Alissa Wilkinson October 7, 2022

Everything you need to know about the 95th Academy Awards

Triangle of Sadness might be the meanest film of the year. Its director is an optimist.

By Alissa Wilkinson October 6, 2022

Everything you need to know about the 95th Academy Awards

Every movie right now, from Amsterdam to Glass Onion, stars a million A-listers

By Alissa Wilkinson October 4, 2022

Everything you need to know about the 95th Academy Awards

The buzziest fall movies have something in common

By Alissa Wilkinson September 22, 2022

Everything you need to know about the 95th Academy Awards

Inside Darren Aronofsky’s messy movie The Whale is something wise about religious trauma

By Alissa Wilkinson September 20, 2022

Everything you need to know about the 95th Academy Awards

What the film Women Talking loses (and preserves) from the 2018 novel

By Alissa Wilkinson September 14, 2022

Everything you need to know about the 95th Academy Awards

This summer’s movies are all about love

By Alissa Wilkinson July 29, 2022

Everything you need to know about the 95th Academy Awards

Elvis and the trouble with musician biopics

By Alissa Wilkinson June 26, 2022

Everything you need to know about the 95th Academy Awards

The long, long, twisty affair between the US military and Hollywood

By Alissa Wilkinson May 27, 2022

Everything you need to know about the 95th Academy Awards

Hollywood’s hot new trend: Parents who say they’re sorry

By Emily St. James April 25, 2022

Everything you need to know about the 95th Academy Awards

Everything Everywhere All at Once, explained by a quantum physicist

By Alex Abad-Santos April 15, 2022

Will Smith’s slap and Oscars ban, briefly explained

By Constance Grady April 8, 2022

You can’t save the Oscars by making them sponcon

By Alissa Wilkinson March 28, 2022

Two actors — and one major corporation — that broke boundaries at the 2022 Oscars

By Emily St. James March 28, 2022

A night of chaos: 4 winners and 2 losers from the 2022 Oscars

By Aja Romano, Alex Abad-Santos, and 2 more March 28, 2022

How CODA managed to pull out a Best Picture win

By Alissa Wilkinson March 28, 2022

One Good Thing: The movie you have to see if you loved Drive My Car

By Alissa Wilkinson March 24, 2022

Stanley Nelson’s 3 decades of telling Black stories

By Jamil Smith March 23, 2022

One Good Thing: The messy, glorious music videos of Paul Thomas Anderson

By Alissa Wilkinson March 22, 2022

Everything you need to know about the 95th Academy Awards

Pixar’s Turning Red is an unlikely culture war battleground

By Aja Romano March 17, 2022

3 Oscar nominees, one little-seen musical about cheerleaders

By Constance Grady March 16, 2022

Everything you need to know about the 95th Academy Awards

The Oscars can’t quite decide if they’re about America or the whole world

By Alissa Wilkinson March 2, 2022

Your 9 biggest questions about the 2022 Oscars, answered

By Alissa Wilkinson February 26, 2022